Years ago an agent in Toronto told me she used to get Ross Bertram work. She flabbergasted me by telling me he did the substitution trunk!Somehow I couldn't imagine a great coin magician from the Stars of Magic doing the trunk trick! I was in his presence once (actually I should say he was in MY presence!) but I never did speak to him. I did speak to his wife once though some time after he died. I bumped into her when I was selling svengali decks somewhere. She told me she was trying got some newspaper article or other done about her late husband.

Great to see these and to learn about the background to the Stars of Magic series. The tricks looked strangely familiar though, and after a bit of searching I found out why - all of them (plus a few more) appear in the book "Close Up Magic of the Masters" published by Jackie Flosso.